Won without a category win
COOL SMOKE won the Grand Championship without winning a single meat — 2 calls from 4 boards, best of them 4th. Consistency beat fireworks.
- Chicken 26th
- Pork Ribs 4th
- Pork 7th
- Brisket 20th
2013-10-03 – 2013-10-06 · Kansas City, MO · 📍 Kansas City, MO
Grand Champion: COOL SMOKE (700.5256) · 174 teams
Reserve Champion: 🥈 T-MAC SMOKIN
Overall totals, every team on the board — tall stacks are where the pack sat.
Every board on one scale — the bar runs last score to first, the dot is the median.
Everything below is read straight out of the results — the number on each card is the one that made it a story.
COOL SMOKE won the Grand Championship without winning a single meat — 2 calls from 4 boards, best of them 4th. Consistency beat fireworks.
Chicken places 3–4: HICKORY PRIME and SHIGGIN & GRINNIN tied on 177.7028 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Chicken places 9–10: QUE AND A HALF MEN and GOOD SMOKE BBQ tied on 176.0000 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Pork Ribs places 1–2: BIG T'Z Q CRU and GILLY'S BBQ tied on 178.8572 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker.
Bigger than 100% of the 5,410 contests in the data
174 teams made this a bigger field than 100% of every contest tracked.
2 perfect 180s were scored at this contest — every judge at the table handing back a nine.
| Category | 1st | 5th | 10th |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 179.4400 | 177.1428 | 176.0000 |
| Pork Ribs | 178.8572 | 177.1428 | 175.4172 |
| Pork | 178.8572 | 177.7372 | 175.4056 |
| Brisket | 180.0000 | 177.1772 | 176.0344 |
174 entries · top 700.5256 · median 661.9198
174 entries · top 179.4400 · median 166.2458
174 entries · top 178.8572 · median 164.5544
174 entries · top 178.8572 · median 165.1200
174 entries · top 180.0000 · median 164.5656 · 🔥 perfect 180